The Duality of Nature
A brilliant mind shared this wisdom, ``Universe is the aggregate of all humanity's consciously apprehended and communicated non simultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences. `` - Buckminster Fuller
He also goes on to described how all humans are born helpless naked, ignorant and without any instructions. Equipped merely with some built in cravings and emotions. We have developed language and been able to observe patterns that have given us insights into the workings of the universe and the realisation of our living home, the third planet from our sun star; in the Milky Way, a barred spiral galaxy 100,000–120,000 light-years in diameter containing 100–400 billion stars. Containing at least as many planets……….
When you unpack this simple yet comprehensive statement the importance of the word “aggregate” becomes apparent. It’s significant because the universe is determined by what the majority “consciously apprehended and communicated”. This is also the basis of all humanities power struggle from the moment we learned to communicate. Simply put, he who can control the conscious apprehension of those around him is the master of his universe. The keys to power lie in the ability to control communication and must therefore be defended at all costs.
IMHO, Science is the set of tools we have devised to try and define that which is common about our experiences with the absence of emotion.
Art is the creative means by which we skilfully manipulate the five scenes of others to evoke shared emotions.
Magic is the ability to induce desired emotional responses in others using art, with the combination of ritual to make the results are more profound and compelling. All organised religion is based on magic.
White Magic appeals to empathy and the interests of all.
Black Magic appeals to the selfish interests of a few at the expense of others.
As no two people can occupy the same time and space our individual perspectives are unique and therefore so too are our egos. Ego is the envelope of self-awareness that separates us from the conscious ether; empathy is our umbilical cord through which we can raise our awareness; bring us closer to the collective reality. Once we accept this and the sovereign rights of others to have their own perspective of the universe we can find common meaning and peace. IMO there are only two rules to live by: -
1) The mutual right of all humans to hold a unique perspective of the universe, this is the fundamental mystery of life.
2) When contemplating any action or position, first ask ourselves if every other human did the same thing would the world we share be better off or worse for it.
Homers man who escapes the cave of light and shadows, is killed upon his return for his inability to share the wonders of the world outside; he has no common language reference to communicate the experience or to influence the others aggregate apprehension. The fellow troglodytes’ lack of empathy for his right to hold a unique perspective of the universe sadly is not only the result of his death but also diminished quality of their own existence.
My comments are made in the context of the human perspective, that said all matter and life have a unique positions in time and space thus hold unique perspectives. It is most likely given the vast number of galaxies stars and planets that there are not just multiple fractal expressions of life permeating the universe, but consciences as well.
IMO there are only two fundamental metaphysical forces driving our Universe, Entropy that Devolves Mater and Consciousness that Evolves Life. If we then plot evolution on a linear scale I see the following: -
Nothing ->Energy -> mater -> atoms -> molecules -> amino acids -> proteins -> single cellular life -> multi cellular life -> individual consciousness -> collective consciousness
I have a hunch that the two extremes of the scale are one and the same i.e nothing and collective consciousness are the ether we are all just evolutionary expressions of this to some varying degree.
Interestingly time has the same duality; The best analogy I can think of is in maths no result can be 0 and infinity at the same time. But in reality the present is where the conscious window is eternally located. On the time line, the present = zero, the past = negative and the future = positive, both forming a circle stretching out to infinity. Zero is what is happening now but everything that has ever happened or will ever happen; always happens in the zero point, the present. So paradoxically then, the present like a singularity is simultaneously zero and infinite at the same time.
In the same way I suspect the concepts of nothing and a singularity or collective consciousness co-exist and everything is merely unique expressions of this conscious ether in a space time dimension.
The illusion of time : past, present and future all exist together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrqmMoI0wksAnother interesting insight is offered by Alan Steinfeld and Bruce Lipton that at a fundamental cellular level successful evolution is driven by a desire to explore symbiotic relationships this adds the element of empathy to the process that was not considered in the classical Darwinian Model.
A poignant excerpt from:
Why Darwin is Wrong and Fractal Evolution by Alan Steinfeld
“By using the work of cellular biologist Bruce Lipton, former professor at Stanford University, I will show that the patterns of evolution are not created by chance. They are based upon a fractal configuration of nature. Lipton and others, say that evolution is a two-step process going from the One to the Many. This progresses in ongoing levels of development: from cell to multi-cellular organism and into social organizations.
First Lipton defines evolution as “the gaining of greater awareness. At the most fundamental physical level of a single cell we can see that awareness is defined by a protein like protuberance coming off the membrane called a receptor site. Receptors like sense organs are interfaces between the outer and inner environments. They survey the environment and feed information back to the rest of the cell. It lets the organism know that if something is harmful- move away from it; or if something is beneficial -move towards it. There is only one site for each stimulus in the environment and they can only exist in a single layer. The more receptor sites the greater the awareness of the environment and the more survival is assured. But there is a limit to the amount of receptor sites a cell can have, because if the membrane were to get too big it would rip open, the cytoplasm would pore out and the cell would die.”http://www.newrealities.com/index.php/articles-on-new-sciences/item/299-why-darwin-is-wrong-and-fractal-evolution-by-alan-steinfeld
